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churchman

[church-muhn]

church·man

[church-muhn]
noun, plural -men.
1.
an ecclesiastic; clergyman.
2.
an adherent or active supporter of a church.
3.
British. a member of the Established Church.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English. See church, -man

church·man·ly, adjective
church·man·ship, noun
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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churchman (ˈtʃɜːtʃmən)
 
n , pl -men
1.  a clergyman
2.  a male practising member of a church
 
'churchmanly
 
adj
 
'churchmanship
 
n

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